Business Strategy on Prop 55
Business organizations are beginning to line up against Proposition 55, the income tax extension, but is it a matter of showing the flag or engaging in full force? Long term strategy on business related tax issues is part of business’s calculation. No question business is opposing the effort to extend for 12 years what was […]
Prop 53 Gives Taxpayers Less Say, Not More
One of the myths of Proposition 53 – the Cortopassi ballot measure – is that it somehow would give taxpayers more control over the funding of major infrastructure projects. In truth, Proposition 53 gives local taxpayers and residents less ability to decide what gets built in their communities. One of the little-known details of Proposition […]
Get Back, Loretta
Let me start with an admission of error. I recently chastised Rep. Loretta Sanchez in this space for going to Spain earlier in the summer, instead of campaigning for the U.S. Senate. I argued that she needed to make a real full-time campaign, for her own good. I was wrong to say that. Sanchez on […]
The Future of Latino Politics
The sad decline in race relations has focused, almost exclusively, on the age-old, and sadly growing, chasm between black and white. Yet this divide may prove far less important, particularly in this election, than the direction of the Latino community. This may be the first election where Latinos, now the nation’s largest minority group, may […]
A Tale of Two Conventions
The decision as to which Party holds the first nominating convention is determined by the current White House occupant? Advantage Hillary Clinton and the Democrats who have the benefit of knowing what was said and can now polish the rebuttals. The over-riding theme of the GOP conclave was easy enough to identify. It was attack […]